Story Must Be Told, Pt 8: Multiculturalism: My Tribe’s Better Than Yours – Plus, You’re a Jerk!
Like the spy chiefs of the OSS and CIA, Marxists also favor the interdisciplinary approach. Marxism was never about “economics” anyway. It has always been about “political economy,” a theoretical agenda embracing all aspects of society and culture in the hopes of bringing about a new “human cosmos,” kind of like Islam’s totalitarian notion of Sharia Law, minus that whole “God” thing. That’s because Marxism, and all species of post-modern radicalism, are totalitarian in their nature and their political agendas. Nothing escapes them.
And, as Horowitz also points out, “Political radicals are confident that they possess the theoretical key that will unlock the mysteries of humanity and society.” He goes on to say, “Of course, they don’t believe in any immutabilities like human nature which, in the preposterous view now proposed in the university, is ‘socially constructed.’
Their agenda, like that of Lenin and Hitler, is to re-construct the world and to create the new men and new women who will inhabit it (and think just as they do). Such an enterprise requires an adolescent credulity, an amnesia towards the past, and an interdisciplinary approach.” More on the “interdisciplinary approach” in next week’s column.
There’s another aspect that many folks on the Left tend to forget when cheering on the proponents of multiculturalism: America already has a culture — thank you very much – that it’s been cultivating for over 400 years! From its inception as a nation of immigrants (240-odd years ago) America has been, until recently, a multi-national, multi-ethnic society, which has always been unparalleled in all human history in its success in integrating diverse communities on the basis of an ideal of equality…and that is something worth keeping and celebrating.
Next week, we’re goin’ back to school with, “I’m Like, Really Smart, Now that I’ve Went to College.”
Image: Corner façade of the en:Ford Foundation Building in New York City; author: Stakhanov; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license
